INTERSECTIONS // Berlin-Bucharest Exchange: Post-painting – Mimetic Consumerism and the Poetics of Capitalist Realism in Romania
Article by Valentina Iancu – in Bucharest; Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015.
The death of painting, which was emphatically announced after 1935 and has been repeatedly acclaimed in modernism, post-modernism, while still debated in some artistic mediums, is becoming an actual problem in the new capitalist cultural geographies of Eastern Europe. Being an instrument of communist propaganda, painting is mistrusted by the avidly reformed artistic community of the 90s…[read on…]
